Judge Rosemary McGuire of Fresno, CA; incompetent boob

The state of California presented Rosemary Therese McGuire with a law license in 1994 after he graduated from San Joaquin College of Law in Clovis, California.

FYI: The San Joaquin School of Law is a 4^th Tier School that is dedicated to taking in losers that were unable to gain acceptance at mainstream schools like USC, UC Davis, UCLA or the University of Pacific McGeorge Schools of Law.

It should be noted that former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was duped into appointing Rosie as a Fresno County Superior Court Judge in Santa Ana in 2010. Rosie didn’t receive the appointment because she was the most qualified attorney in the greater Orange County area, she received it because she had proven to be a reliable lackey for the local political hacks.

In one matter, Rosie was assigned to preside over the matter of Vosburg v. County of Fresno involving an action by an unincorporated association representing the voting rights of psychiatric patients at a state hospital that acted as a “de facto intervener” in an election contest raised by city officials and whether they could collect attorney fees as a “successful party” under California’s private attorney general statute.

In her infinite ignorance and incompetence, Rosie denied a motion for attorney fees filed by Detainee-Americans for Civic Equality (“DACE”), a voter advocacy association representing patients at the Department of State Hospitals-Coalinga. The state facility treats prisoners and sex offenders committed under court order for psychiatric rehabilitation.

Subsequently, DACE successfully appealed Rosie’s asinine ruling to the Fifth District Court of Appeal, which stated in its reversal as follows.

• “This analysis [Judge McGuire’s\ is devoid of any reference to an unincorporated association’s ability to appear in litigation in a representative capacity and does not acknowledge cases in which an association of voters or taxpayers has appeared in an election contest.”
• “Our examination of DACE’s briefs and declarations leads us to find as a matter of law that DACE made a unique contribution to the defense of the election contest.”
• “We further conclude the unincorporated association was a ‘de facto intervener’ because it fully participated in the election contest by presenting evidence and legal arguments that were not duplicated by the other parties,” he continued. “The submission of evidence is an important factor that distinguishes interveners from amici curiae. Consequently, the association qualifies as a ‘party’ for purposes of section 1021.5.”

It goes without saying that Rosie doesn’t much give a damn when she’s overturned (rebuked in truth) by the appellate court since she is well aware that no California judge has ever been tossed off the bench for being an incompetent boob. In addition, she isn’t concerned with the cost to the taxpayers of having her asinine ruling overturned.

 As we speak (ca. September 2020), Rosie continues to sit as a Fresno County Superior Court judge in Fresno, California.